Codakia

Codakia is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Lucinidae.

Codakia

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CodakiinaePBDB
Diet
chemosymbioticPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 143 million years on record.

The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 149.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 157 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 157 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 157 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 157 occurrencesEocene — about 5 of 157 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 157 occurrencesMiocene — about 30 of 157 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 27 of 157 occurrencesPleistocene — about 86 of 157 occurrences152–147 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences147–142 Mya — about 1 occurrence142–137 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences71–66 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences66–61 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences61–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 2 occurrences51–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–41 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences41–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–30 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences30–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–15 Mya — about 6 occurrences15–10 Mya — about 13 occurrences10–5.1 Mya — about 10 occurrences5.1–0 Mya — about 117 occurrences143.1 Mya11.7 ka152 Mya0 Mya

157 occurrences of Codakia on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

157 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

44 formations

Abbas — 16.75°N, 41.73°EAbbas — 15.40°N, 42.53°EAbbas — 16.75°N, 42.00°EAbbas — 16.55°N, 42.00°EAbbas — 16.90°N, 41.67°EIronshore — 19.33°N, 81.25°WImperial — 32.83°N, 116.04°WImperial — 33.41°N, 116.06°WGrotto Beach — 24.03°N, 74.52°WWare — 11.91°N, 71.28°WWare — 11.96°N, 71.28°WWare — 11.82°N, 71.41°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.44°WCaloosahatchee — 26.79°N, 81.30°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WBermont — 26.38°N, 80.71°WPoivre — 20.67°S, 115.42°EPoivre — 20.85°S, 115.50°EGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WFalmouth — 18.47°N, 77.45°WDiscovery Point — 29.00°N, 118.27°WDiscovery Point — 28.98°N, 118.23°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.65°N, 88.08°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.36°N, 88.70°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.27°WCercado — 19.45°N, 71.18°WBelmont — 32.33°N, 64.69°WBelmont — 32.36°N, 64.71°WSpilsby Sandstone — 52.78°N, 0.52°ESpilsby Sandstone — 53.13°N, 0.05°EAldabra Limestone — 9.42°S, 46.45°EWaimanalo — 21.45°N, 157.72°WWaimanalo — 21.38°N, 158.15°WCulebra — 9.06°N, 79.66°W"Riukiu Limestone" — 22.62°N, 120.30°E"Old Reef Limestone" — 23.62°N, 36.20°EMarada — 29.23°N, 19.20°E

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The named rock units Codakia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 61 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Codakia and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Codakia and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,243 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 81 sites for Codakia, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

71 references

Each of the 157 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 59 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Codakia

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Codakia orbicularis · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:176528

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCodakiinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Scopoli 1777)